12.04 was a beautiful dream, 14.04 a nightmare.

[Simon]

Currently I am still running 12.04 LTS and have no plans to fix what is not broken. However I recall having issues with 10.10 and 12.04 when I first installed them. Nepomuk and Wallet were some of these issues for me. Just as when most people who installed Windows for the 5th or 6th time knew better and eliminated annoying software right away. However it sounds from the initial posting you came here to rant about 14.04 and not actually seeking assistance. The members of this forum are mostly users of the same software and most likely not a developer in the whole lot.

Should you decide to accept assistance you might want to read some articles.
http://community.kde.org/Baloo/Debugging
http://userbase.kde.org/Nepomuk#Freq...sked_Questions

Have a nice day.

[aria]

@snowhog:

Harsh but (unfortunately) true on my HP-g6 I3-2350M@2.3GH 64-bit, 8GB-RAM, broadcom WiFi.
Including baloo with 14.04 was a very bad decision (although highly disputed, as I can read in this forum), and new NM a scrap (as I can read in this forum too).

[aria]

@sithlord48:

About baloo: already did what you said, but as I wrote in my first post here (see gscan2pdf), wasn't enough.

Don't use wallet, and nothing wrong with the password. Just the well known issue of this new NM with broadcoms. But don't believe in a driver issue, like I mentioned (see Fedora).

Thanks anyway,

[Snowhog]

aria@
Your experience is, your experience, but I have to say that your criticism as to 4.04 not even deserving a Beta designation is overly harsh.

I have two laptops; a 32-bit Core-duo and a 64-bit i3. Both run 14.04, with Baloo, without any issues or temp problems. 14.04 is, in my estimation, a very polished Kubuntu release.

[sithlord48]

some things to do if you go back to 14.04 :

disable baloo. you can do so in system settings-> desktop search by adding your home folder (and anyother mounted drives you don't want scanned) to the ingore list.

when the network manager dissconnects are you prompted with a password dialog? if so you might have been disconnected because your router jumped channels and network manager is not accessing kwallet correctly. check system settings -> about me -> kde wallet -> access control and see if the network manager is on the list. you might have to make a new wallet to resolve the issue this worked for my brother. i have not seen it on another machine with wifi (all mine are atheros cards his is the only broadcom i have used w/ 14.04)

[aria]

Two issues in 14.04: baloo & the new Network manager.

If installing 14.04 from new, you might not see what baloo is able to do, because no documents to scan for content. But if you upgrade, and have 10+GB of old documents, baloo starts immediately to scan them for content, and laptop's temperature reaches 70&+°C in only 2 min. If you don't unplug laptop from the AC adapter (the fastest way to stop baloo) you risk to lose it (bake some eggs meanwhile). Adding home and media directories to the single customizing option for baloo (do not scan for content), solves the issue partially: try to gscan2pdf a page (with ocr disabled in gscan2pdf) and you'll see temperature reaching 70+°C before scanner goes back in position. This is because baloo still ocrizes it, as the temp file isn't in either home or media directories. Including baloo with 14.04 was a huuuuuge mistake.

New Network manager disconnects computer from router every 5 minutes, or each time starting another app using the connection. Don't believe it is the generic broadcome driver making these troubles, because this same driver works well in Fedora. Believe network manager is set somehow to go in standby with wrong or no reason.

Because of these two issues, in my opinion 14.04 doesn't even deserve a Beta designation, so dysfunctional and risky for the machine is it. It is shocking to see such an OS after falling in love with 12.04. Personally I reinstalled 12.04, and with Jupiter on it, run now under 45°C (exception only youtube 720p on full screen, which rises temperature at max. 50~52°C). Now, when ending this post, temperature shows 39°C (while in the room are 21°C). This is a good OS.